Yahoo Query Language API

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The Yahoo Query Language, YQL, provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data.

Gossipgrind is an automated news aggregator focusing on popular culture, celebrity gossip and news. Gossipgrind accomplishes this by linking to posts from all over the web leveraging the Yahoo Query...

The U.S. General Services Administration provides the GSA SAM API, a RESTful GET API that provides developers the ability to search and retrieve public information about the businesses or individuals...

Gossipgrind is an automated news aggregator focusing on popular culture, celebrity gossip and news. Gossipgrind accomplishes this by linking to posts from all over the web leveraging the Yahoo Query Language API.

See all the text links to images in one window without scrolling or clicking. Heres an example, you are on reddit and there is a thread about movie posters. Multiple people have posted multiple images in the thread. TikiPik scrapes the page, finds all those links and give you a preview of them in a pop up. From there you can click any link and see it 100% in a new tab.

World Citizen News gets you:
+ the Twitter buzz for cities around the world based on Twitter Trends
+ weather forecast, local time & map for popular cities around the world
+ images for selected location from flickr
+ news based on the trending Twitter topics

The premise of this MashApp is simple: Use Yahoo Query Language to access Flickr's RSS feed of current images, and then display them fashionably, using jQuery. 20 newly uploaded Flickr photos are selected at a time and displayed as thumbnails. Clicking any thumbnail opens the related Flickr photoset. The process repeats every few seconds and can be paused by pressing the space bar. The time between sets and the drop down speed are configurable.

An online spell checker. This service was an iGoogle Gadget to improve spelling while using Google's web search that generates over 100,000 visitors per day. This web site is an enhanced version of that gadget.

MSHT3 is a pure Google Maps version 3 mashup utilizing new Google Geocoding and Elevation services, combined with Yahoo! Query Language accessing Yahoo! Geoplanet. US Zip Code and County polygons are displayed, when available, from PropertyMaps.com.

One key part missing from del.icio.us is a full-text search API. Delicious Search Exploder uses Yahoo Query Language, Pipes, and a couple of native feeds from Delicious to provide an on-page search-and-browse experience for users, tags, and sites.